The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 81
bits of coloured crystal. Thefloors are tapestried with silver wire or paved withchiselled brass ; and the doors, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, glow like heated opal, while from the gold andcrimson rafters of the ceiling often hang a stalactiteforest of floral foliage worked in porcelain. There is a… … TEMPLES OF ANGCOR. 59 taching to antiquity, there being few buildings inSiam dating more than a hundred years ago. In Cambodia, however, one finds the remnants ofa civilization which can claim both antiquity and acertain amount of architectural interest. Of these remnants nothing but ruins now…
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